Taichung Central Park "Nursery" will be put into trial operation in November, and the restoration of rare native plants will begin

Rare native plants can also be seen in urban areas, and the Central Park Nursery will be put into trial operation in November. (provided by the city)

"Central Park" is the lungs of Taichung. In order to continue to expand the diverse functions of Central Park, the city government's Construction Bureau plans to promote the trial operation of the "nursery" to provide external services starting in November. It will cultivate Taiwan's rare native plants, including the endangered and critically endangered plant "Centrus macrocarpa", as well as endangered plants such as "Lanyu Hutong" and "Jinxinmujiangzi" with only about 200 wild individuals in Taiwan. Plant experience and environmental education activities will also be held regularly.

The Central Park Nursery has started to carry out space preparation and native plant cultivation in December 2025. The relevant maintenance work has been completed in January 2026. It is currently continuing to carry out seedling cultivation, plant propagation and park plant maintenance. In November, it will promote the trial operation of the "nursery" to external services.

The Construction Bureau stated that the Municipal Construction Bureau and the National Museum of Natural Science signed a memorandum of cooperation (MOU) to combine the expertise and resources of both parties to promote the restoration, cultivation and promotion of Taiwan's native plants, and plan native plant exhibitions and environmental education activities to deepen the public's understanding of Taiwan's plant ecology and biodiversity.

In addition, we will also connect schools, research institutions, communities and civil society groups to promote day reading in Central Park, volunteer empowerment, plant source exchange and public greening cooperation, and gradually establish a diversified environmental education promotion mechanism.

The Building and Construction Bureau pointed out that the external services of the nursery will be on a reservation basis and will be implemented in phases. In the initial stage, priority will be given to schools, institutions, and environmental education, research, and public welfare groups. The general public and parent-child groups will be flexibly accepted based on the nursery operations, manpower, and space capacity.

Seedlings are provided for public purposes such as environmental education, public welfare, community greening and government cooperation, and are handled based on actual cultivation and inventory assessment. They are not open to the general public to freely obtain, nor are they for commercial use.

The Building and Construction Bureau stated that during the trial operation period, the service content and management mechanism will be reviewed on a rolling basis based on the actual application situation and implementation results, and the Central Park will continue to play its diverse functions in native plant cultivation, urban greening and environmental education.

Central Park’s nursery will start trial operation for external services in November. (provided by the city)